It's a New Year!

Told you I was moving on! So we're already in the first full week of January 2015. I've looked over the changes on the Mark's Finest Papers website and blog and like what I see. Be sure to visit them to see all the fun cards and ideas they offer.

This Challenge is the Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge # 243 and it calls for a patchwork look. I made the patchwork on one half of the card and used a matching light green on the other half using Oil Pastels and a little oil to rub it around. Unfortunately, the green really isn't showing up, but it looks very pretty together.

I think this could be a nice card for Valentine's Day. I popped the heart out and used a piece of my homemade torn paper behind it.

Follow up on Christmas

This is the year we lost Christmas. At least I got the cards all posted and the packages wrapped before the flu hit. Apparently, spending several days in and out of the Birmingham Alabama VA Hospital isn't a healthy way to spend the holidays. We rounded it all out with time on the sofa and in bed after getting a confirmed flu diagnosis. The good news is with all the juicing and good eating we do, we suffered for only a little over 2 weeks fighting it off as opposed to the "normal" 5 to 6 weeks.

Sooo, moving on to finish up the blog for 2014, I am posting 3 tags I made for packages that I want to add to the MFP Color Challenge still going on until this Thursday (1-8-2015). I guess it actually ends on Wednesday but that still gives me time to put these up. And yes, they are gone, mailed on parcels that went out only 1 week after Christmas.

This Color Challenge #44 is for the colors burgundy, gold and green. A no brainer for Christmas right?! I wish my colors would come out more true than they do but I promise those 3 colors are on each tag.

Merry Christmas for all that enjoyed it. Happy New Year to start us all off well!

Nutcrackers

Ahh, I just got home with my husband from an emergency trip to Birmingham, Alabama to help a family member. What was the first thing I did? Walked into the craft room and start on another Christmas card of course!


I participated in the October Swap and received 3 wonderful cards from An'Jenic Gibson, Pat Garvin, and Ruth Dupchen. But I also received this really sweet mini stamp set called More Nutcrackers 2014 as part of the swap.




Then I saw the Tutorial Time Challenge and since I've been messing around with watercolors since June, I thought it would be another way to work with water and well, color.

This is the last Tutorial Time Challenge from Mark's Finest Papers for this year. I really enjoy this challenge because of all the wonderful ideas. I think I'll go to the tutorial page and start working my way through all the past tutorials presented. What a way to garner ideas for cards!

I love all the Design Team cards there too. Way to go again ladies.

I will also enter this card in the Word Art Wednesday Challenge this week.

Merry Christmas!

Ice Skating

I love this happy little mfp Penguin and the joy on his face as he is ice skating. I'm entering this card in the mfp Sketch With a Twist Challenge #120. It calls for a "Winter Theme" card with the sketch that is posted on the web page.

This is the last challenge for this year so Merry Christmas to all the DT for the SWAT challenges.

Down to the Wire!

Yes, I'm still making Christmas cards, even as I am addressing envelopes to start sending them out! This is for a Challenge and the idea is from another Challenge.

Mark's Finest Papers has the Sketch With A Twist Challenge this time using the theme "Winter Scene." I made a card that I will post next but first I used the sketch to create this Color Challenge #44 card using burgundy, green and gold. I even made a matching package tag. This card has Santa riding off into the night. Hope he's on the way to my house!

I took this picture twice and for some reason the gold stamp that is crisp and clear, isn't showing up that way. Oh well.

And here's the little 3" x 3" tag to match. It was so easy to do and I used up some scraps in the process.

Merry Christmas to the Color Challenge team!